Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“I am a seasoned field surgeon having survived some five hundred campaigns,’ said Siri. ‘I was educated in France and I speak three languages.’…

— Colin Cotterill

“The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. ‘It shall be in the power…

— Aldous Huxley

“I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in…

— Abraham Verghese

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.”

— William S. Wilson

“Though contrary to what the Old Man would have me believe, the vocabulary of servitude is not built upon my knowledge of foreign words…

— Monique Truong

“Philip himself asked desperately what was the use of living at all. It all seemed inane. It was the same with Cronshaw: it was…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding

“I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound. Words, most…

— Monique Truong

“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the…

— Rex Stout

“The moment one learns English, complications set in.”

— Felipe Alfau

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham